The best solution to that? Teach people from the very start of their faith how to pick up a spoon and feed themselves!
5. As People Mature, Call On Them to Start Leading Others
Discipleship is never finished. Even the most mature believer has something to learn.
The best way for a mature believer to keep learning is to teach others as they do ministry together.
Start With One
One of the great side benefits of these steps is how little time it takes from the pastor’s schedule. Instead of putting in endless hours of discipleship myself (though I still do some of it) I often hear about great results after-the-fact.
I recommend starting with one person. That’s what I did. I walked a new believer through the early stages of discipleship myself, including letting them know that they’d be doing this themselves some day. Then, when another new believer came along, I showed them how to adapt what we’d done with this new believer.
Believers discipling believers.
Our churches don’t need a program, a curriculum, a classroom or a certified teacher. We just need to do it.
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